Category: Latino/a and Latin American Studies

Native Studies Research Colloquium — Lynn Stephen

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[ December 1, 2014; 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_3969" align="alignright" width="232" class=" "] Professor Lynn Stephen (photo by Michael McDermott)[/caption]

 

 

Many Nations Longhouse
1630 Columbia St.
UO campus
Free & open to the public
(Bring Your Own Lunch)
“Transborder Gendered Violence and Resistance: Indigenous Women Migrants Seeking U.S. Asylum”
a talk by Dr. Lynn Stephen, Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences, Department of Anthropology, and Director of the Center […]

Jafari Sinclaire Allen: “Black/Queer Here & There: Ethnography of An Idea”

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[ March 11, 2015; 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. ] Erb Memorial Union
Gumwood Rm
1222 E. 13th Ave.
UO campus

Jafari Sinclaire Allen will give a talk on “Black/Queer Here & There: Ethnography of An Idea” on March 11. Dr. Allen is an associate professor of African American studies and anthropology at Yale University who works at the intersections of [queer] sexuality, gender and blackness. He is also […]

Faculty Workshop: “Researching Human Rights in Latin America: Challenges, Resources, and Strategies”

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[ February 24, 2015; 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm. ] Erb Memorial Union (EMU)
Metolius Room
UO campus

Rebecca Atencio, assistant professor of Spanish & Portuguese in the Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University,  will offer a faculty workshop titled “Researching Human Rights in Latin America: Challenges, Resources, and Strategies” on February 24, 2015, from noon to 1:30 pm. EMU Metolius Room. Professor […]

Official and Other Truths: Memories of Dictatorship in the Wake of Brazil’s National Truth Commission

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[ February 23, 2015; 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm. ] Gerlinger Hall
Alumni Lounge
1468 University St.

Rebecca Atencio, assistant professor of Spanish & Portuguese in the Roger Thayer Stone Center For Latin American Studies at Tulane University, will give a public lecture titled “Official and Other Truths: Memories of Dictatorship in the Wake of Brazil’s National Truth Commission.” Professor Atencio is the author of Memory’s Turn: Reckoning […]

Ileana Rodríguez-Silva: “Gender and Class in the Silencing of Race in Puerto Rico”

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[ February 6, 2015; 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm. ] Browsing Room, Knight Library
1501 Kincaid St.   printable flyer
Public Talk

Ileana M. Rodríguez-Silva is an associate professor of Latin American and Caribbean history at the University of Washington, Department of History. She earned her B.A. at the Universidad de Puerto Rico – Rio Piedras and her M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Rodriguez-Silva is the […]

Documentary by Gabriela Martínez to be shown during Border Film Week at the University of San Diego

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Border Film Week – Events at the University of San Diego.
CSWS associate director Gabriela Martínez has been invited to screen her documentary Keep Your Eyes On Guatemala for the Border Film Week Series organized by the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice at the University of San Diego. The documentary will be screened on March […]